Math/Stat Club Picnic

 

Student Internship Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, April 20, SLC120

Data Visualization Applied to Financial Consulting Sadie Sedacca
This talk will provide an overview of an internship as a data science intern at Integrated Consulting Services. The tasks and visualizations created for clients will be included as well as a summary of the benefits of working as a consultant for a smaller firm. This presentation will give insight into the invaluable experience of working with business owners trying to navigate the lasting impacts of the COVID–19 pandemic.
Shared Investments: Gold to Platinum Aaron Turnblad
	This presentation will be on a project that I was assigned through my internship with Fastenal. Fastenal’s Share Investment program, a membership Fastenal vendors can join to get exclusive benefits. The main question that marketing wanted to be answered was, does switching from the Gold tier to the Platinum tier increase the amount we spend with the vendor? This was approached using a paired t-test for vendors who stayed in the Shared Investment program who were gold in 2021 and upgraded to platinum in 2022.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, April 13, SLC120

Parity for Non-Integer Numbers Aaron Lewis
This talk summarizes an exploratory analysis of the concept of parity for non-integer numbers. Using a generalization of parity derived from integers' interaction with exponents of negative numbers, a rational extension is derived. Using sets generated by different branches of the complex logarithm, and the resulting geometric structures in the complex plane, a definition for parity over the rationals is determined. An attempt is made at extending the definition further into the reals and complex numbers, and while a definition is found for some complex numbers, issues with irrational numbers prevent a full extension into the real and complex numbers
Analysis Programming Consultant and Forecasting Methods Carly Vandenhouten
	This talk will give an overview of a summer internship as an analysis programming consultant to the pharmaceutical research industry. The tasks and deliverables required of the analysis programming team involved in a large-scale clinical trial will be discussed. Another part of this presentation will involve a separate consulting position with the Winona YMCA looking at past membership trends and basic forecasting methods to predict the future membership of the Winona location.

Student Seminar

12:00 - 12:45 PM, Wednesday, March 23, SLC120

Comparing Geospatial Interpolation Methods for Modeling Snow Depths David Larson
This project focuses on geospatial interpolation, which is the predicting of unknown values at geographical locations using locations with known values. This project examined various geospatial interpolation methods and comparing them by evaluating how well they were able to predict snow depth. These methods include nearest neighbor, inverse distance weighting, and kriging.
Fantasy Football Projections with Data Analytics Caleb VanDerBeek
	In this talk, I will be discussing the accuracy of fantasy football projections, how they are made, and how to make them yourself. I will also discuss why it is so hard to create accurate predictions, especially without data. The intent of the project was to learn new ways to clean, summarize, and visualize data in relation to fantasy football.

Departmental Seminar

March Madness! Picking Your NCAA Bracket with Linear Algebra

Dr. Aaron Wangberg
Winona State University

Abstract:  How do you pick your NCAA Bracket? Do you value home wins, early season games, and blowouts against Division II and III foes? Or is it better to base everything on the last five games of the season? Bring your computer to fill out your NCAA Bracket and hear the math that has helped WSU Linear Algebra students finish in the top 90% of ESPN's Bracket Challenge.

Wednesday, March 16^th,

12:00- 12:50 PM

Science Laboratory Center/SLC 120

Happy Pi Day!

 

Dr. Leonhardi and Dr. Bergen were pie-ed by the Math/Stat Club.

Math/Stat Club Pi Day Celebration